Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.

The sin of certainty leaves no room for the rest of us.

Only if you were lucky to be born in the right class, the one Donald Trump was born in, then of course you have a beautiful view of the world. You find that everybody else is an imbecile, because he doesn't think like you, he doesn't dress like you, he doesn't have the same girl as you, etc. But I call that ignorance.

So many people have opinions based not on fact but spite.

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

You know, people aren't always the most open-minded.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.

Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

Prejudices save time.

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.